Yah boo sucks, that's enough Oracle and Autonomy!

I love a good spat as much as the next person but am I alone in thinking there is something incredibly childish in the current very public row between Oracle and Autonomy? It's pretty unseemly for one company to accuse the CEO at another of having "a very poor memory" at best or of &qu

I love a good spat as much as the next person but am I alone in thinking there is something incredibly childish in the current
very public row between Oracle and Autonomy?

It's pretty unseemly for one company to accuse the CEO at another of having "a very poor memory" at best or of "lying". Of course, Oracle is nothing if not keen to have a pop at HP whenever and wherever it can and this particular contretemps arose from the database giant's assertion that it had been offered Autonomy for $6bn and rejected it as too expensive months before HP put in its offer of $10bn.

Quite what Oracle expects to achieve is open to question. Perhaps it is seeking to capitalise on the turmoil at its rival in the wake of the ousting of CEO Leo Apotheker, especially as he is so closely identified with the decision to buy Autonomy in the first place. But there must be more grown up ways of going about it.

Autonomy has retorted that any approach to Oracle offering the company for sale was not authorised and questioning Oracle's version of events. It accused Oracle of being "a little confused about the sequence of events and origins of the data it has received, something that would suggest it needs better management of and insight into the unstructured data on its internal systems. We would be delighted to help".

Yes, it's amusing in its own way and humour may well be one of the only ways to deal with Ellison and Oracle's particularly aggressive way of doing business, but I sincerely hope this is the end of the matter and that if Oracle comes back again we don't get into one of those long drawn out arguments where each party is desperate to have the last word. Fat chance!

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